14 Bible Verses about Parental Love

Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad. For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?

And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said in answer, When Joab sent me, your servant, I saw a great outcry going on, but I had no knowledge of what it was.

And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.

If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who make requests to him?

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.